Stories from Monday, December 30, 2019

MONROVIA – The South Putnam Eagle Lady Eagles had the formidable task of taking on the Class 2 No. 2-ranked University Trailblazers in the championship game of the Monrovia Lady Bulldogs Holiday Classic on Monday night. The Eagles did not come home with the championship, but they certainly may have earned a ton of respect from people who watched the game. South played the Blazers evenly until just over four minutes were left in the game before eventually falling 62-46 to a team that started two players over six feet tall and came into the game 15-0 after beating 3A Bishop Chatard in the afternoon game. The Eagles' record is now 9-4.

Franklin D. R. Boehm Sr., age 80, passed away Friday, Dec. 20, 2019 at Putnam County Hospital. He was born in Covington, Ky. on March 10, 1939 to Charles and Mary Boehm. He did a three-and-a-half-year stint in the Army and was honorably discharged of all his duties, and then made a career out of being out on the road. He was an over-the-road truck driver for most of his life and retired in 2004...

PUTNAMVILLE — Of the 37 probationary troopers who graduated from the 79th Indiana State Police Academy on Dec. 19, two have been assigned to the ISP Putnamville Post. Athan Lamson and Daniel VanDuyn will now begin the next phase of their training, a three-month field training period, riding with veteran troopers...

The Greencastle Parks and Recreation Department has announced a variety of programs for January. During the months of January and February residents can have fun building a snowman, snow sculpture or snow creature and submitting a photo to be judged by the Park Board in March...

The following cases were filed in Putnam County courts recently. Criminal Cases Charles W. R. Powell, 31, Greencastle, Class A misdemeanor driving while intoxicated endangering a person Chancelor M. Britton, 28, Rockville, Class A misdemeanor driving while intoxicated endangering a person, Class C misdemeanor driving with a BAC of .08 or more...

County Jail Four people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Sunday • At 7:44 a.m. Cameron Z. Coleman, 28, Indianapolis, was lodged at the jail for driving with a suspended license. Saturday • At 8:09 p.m. Charles W. R. Powell, 31, Cloverdale, was taken into custody on a Marion County warrant and for driving with a BAC of .08 or more...

At the end of a fall semester that’s featured its share of discord between educators and the state legislature, something different transpired on a recent afternoon in Putnam County. Representatives of Putnam County’s schools sat down with the county’s three state legislators and discussed the challenges currently facing public schools in Indiana...

Tragedy, crime and accident stories dominated the most-read list on the Banner Graphic website for 2019. The most-read story of the year was a very recent one -- Sunday morning’s fatal accident on Interstate 70 involving an Arizona couple’s Tesla running into the rear of a Cloverdale fire truck...

Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church recently awarded its latest small community grant of $1,000 to Tzouanakis Intermediate School’s Tiger Pack program. The mission of the Tiger Pack program is to serve Tzouanakis families who are known to be food-insecure...